Mordiford and Hampton Bishop

My latest route is in the April 2023 issue of Country Walking magazine (out now) and is a lovely stroll around the rivers Lugg and Wye near Mordiford, Herefordshire. Even …

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Glorious Glenridding

My feature about Glorious Glenridding, in Cumbria’s Lake District, is in the latest issue of The People’s Friend (Issue dated Saturday 1st April 2023). I can’t believe it’s almost a …

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Snowy Snapper

Well, we were recently hit with an icy blast a couple of days ago, where the snowfall totals reach a good foot in places, here in Stretton. As is so …

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Pitching to Podcasts

The word podcasting was first coined in February 2004. A podcast is an audio show, like radio but, instead of tuning in at a set time, we can download and …

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St Michael and All Angels – Evergreen

Like many churches dedicated to St Michael, Hawkshead’s St Michael and All Angels crowns a hill. This heavenly vantage point overlooks the chimneys and rooftops of this idyllic Lakeland village, …

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Grey Sky Snapper

It’s been grey and drab recently, but that hasn’t stopped me snapping away and submitting them to the BBC WeatherWatcher website. And today, my grey image of Carding Mill Valley …

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Writing The Landscape

Ten years ago, Frances Lincoln, publishers of the Alfred Wainwright pictorial guides to the Lake District, launched a brand new literary prize for published nature writing books. Now managed by …

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Remarkable Wrexham

You could say Wrexham has an A-list aura about it at the moment. This Welsh border conurbation used to be North Wales’s largest town until the Queen gave it city …

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Photography for Writers – Swanwick 2023 – August

Date: Wednesday 9th August 2023Time: 2.15pm to 3.15pmVenue: Swanwick Writers Summer School at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, DerbyshireBooking/Cost: These workshops are part of the 5-day Writers Summer School conference. …

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